#african female face claims

[face-claims-central]

Geenah Philander - South African, Unknown

[bunnysrph]

hi! do you have female fc suggestions that can fit in the bridgerton verse? preferably someone who has dark hair and is in a period drama as well so sourcing media can be easy :] thank you so much!

below are FEMALE, REGENCY ERA face claims. they are listed in alphabetical order, with their birth years && ethnicities. those in bold are my personal recommendations. please LIKE / REBLOG if you find this useful.

amber anderson (1992, scottish)

anna maxwell martin (1977, irish && scottish)

ashley park (1991, korean)

crystal clarke (1993/94, trinidadian && guyanese)

eloise webb (2003, unspecified white)

freida pinto (1984, konkani indian && mangalorean)

gugu mbatha-raw (1983, south african && english)

hannah herzsprung (1981, german)

henriette confurius (1991, german && dutch)

jenna coleman (1986, english, scottish, welsh && irish)

kaya scodelario (1992, brazilian, portugese && english)

lena headey (1973, english && irish)

lily james (1989, french, english, scottish, german && dutch)

mia goth (1993, english, irish, scottish, french-canadian, brazilian, azorean && ashkenazi jewish)

millie brady (1993, unspecified white)

orla brady (1961, irish)

rose williams (1994, english && italian)

suki waterhouse (1992, english && scottish)

zawe ashton (1984, ugandan && english)

[footytea]

disclaimer: these are all romain molina's claims. none of them are mine. romain is an investigative journalist who focuses on exposing corruption, abuse, etc. within the football world. i'm just sharing what he has said over the past few years. some of these claims might sound crazy, but not unbelievable, unfortunately.

trigger warning: his claims mention topics such as rape, abuse, pedophilia, etc. so if those are topics you're not comfortable reading about, please don't continue reading.

one particular topic romain molina has been repeatedly speaking about is the pedophilia and trafficking ring(s) within the football world, involving many (as molina said over half of the) federations, including the spanish federation and the french federation, but also in south & north america, asia, africa. what is happening within these federations is actively being covered up and romain claims that even the french government is involved in the shit happening within the french football federation.

here's a list of a few claims romain molina has made:

more than 400 international players from the premier league, championship, ligue 1 and ligue 2 have been raped multiple times during their youth. some of them had anal injuries and diseases as a result and would go to specialised clinics to be treated. this has been going on for at least two decades.

an international coach was caught raping two 13 year old girls in the middle of an international tournament. his employer covered everything up for him, but still fired him in 2017. romain molina later went on to say that this story was also covered up by a footballer who many idolise and would use as their profile pic on twitter.

a ligue 1 club covered up a pedophilia case, that took place in their training centre. the (foreign) victim was later sent back to his country of origin.

victims of abuse and people who knew about this cannot speak up without facing major consequences. a human rights lawyer who was in the space romain hosted also stated how dangerous it is for the victims to talk about the abuse they have suffered.

an ex-member of the french federation said the following: "when something happens, we keep quiet. they have too much power. the second you speak, it's over."

the ex-director of the french federation said: "at the FFF, everyone talks to everyone. they are all aware of these affairs but they are very quickly buried. it's a policy of silence. they are like ostriches: head in the sand. if you speak, you are eliminated."

didier deschamps apparently claimed he had no idea about the cases of abuse within the french federation, while he was in contact with several people involved these abuse cases and knew about everything happening, but kept quiet for financial reasons.

a lot of molina's work focuses on african football. he has shared stories of female players forced to get abortions (one even died as a result), luring children to their homes, giving children blowjobs and keeping their sperm in jars to perform rituals, academies ran by pedophiles. crazy stuff.

some claims he made unrelated to the pedophilia and trafficking rings:

a current (this was back in 2021, idk if he's still a current player) french international player would organise parties where he would shit in women's mouths and film himself doing it. he forced a girl to participate, who later on issued a formal complaint. molina was also sent a video.

apparently helium balloons are very popular at arsenal and there's a player who even threw a "nitrous oxide balloons"-themed birthday party.

generally, a lot of players smoke shisha. there was a time psg players would bring their shisha/hookah with them on away games. one of the players who would regularly smoke shisha is blaise matuidi.

a few notes:

these are just a few of his claims summarised. if you want more details i would have to deep dive into his work more. romain has written several books and has been doing investigative work for longer than a decade now.

this space was insane, i think there were about 80k listening, even clubs' official twitter accounts were tuning in. the rock was in the space at one point as well 😭 i can't remember who else tuned in as it's been 2/3 years already

these claims simply show how rotten football institutions are and how it isn't surprising that footballers with rape/abuse charges don't have their careers ruined, when the people in charge are doing the same things and even worse.

[racefortheironthrone]

With how much focus she has received since the beginning of the Krakoa era, what are your thoughts on Storm ? And do you agree on the perception that she's becoming something of a Mary Sue?

I’m going to start with a mini-rant about the Mary Sue.

To the extent that there is any validity to the term at all, it is solely and exclusively within the realm of fanfiction. A Mary Sue is an OC (original character) whose supposed annoying omni-competence is really secondary to the main problem with the character, which is that they warp the narrative away from the main characters of the source material - Kirk and Spock or Picard and Data stop doing things that drive the plot, and instead just stand around asking "where's Poochie?"

Outside of fanfiction and in the realm of the media that gives rise to fanfiction, a prominent character who is incredibly talented and powerful and who makes the plot center around them is called a fucking protagonist - so no, Rey isn’t a Mary Sue, Carol Danvers isn’t a Mary Sue, Katniss Everdeen isn't a Mary Sue - none of them are Mary Sues and anyone who claims otherwise is showing that they have deep-seated Issues with female protagonists in their fiction.

Is Storm a Mary Sue?

Even if we weren't talking about the most prominent black woman character in fiction, I would consider this question pretty damn offensive, both because no one would ever ask this question about a male character and - in a franchise packed to the gills with hyper-powerful women who make the plots revolve around them and who even get the complementary Love Triangle - no one sends me asks about any of those (white) women.

But to answer your question: no, Storm is not a Mary Sue - she's the main character of the X-Men.

See, when Chris Claremont took over X-Men in 1975, he did so with a brand-new cast of characters, the so-called "All-New, All-Different X-Men." In no small part because they were far more diverse and more colorful than the O5 (suburban WASPs one and all), most of these characters would become break-out stars and the core of the X-Men from that day to this.

However, Claremont didn't vibe with all of the All-New X-Men equally: he had Sunfire quit the team (repeatedly), he killed off Thunderbird for shock value (a death that has only been reversed this last year), he would have killed off Wolverine if John Byrne hadn't stopped him (Claremont would later turn around on Logan once he worked out his voice), etc.

But one character that he vibed with right from the beginning was Ororo Monroe. From the very beginning, Claremont's Storm is the most powerful of the All-New X-Men, both in terms of her powers and in terms of her personality, being the only person who can face down Logan. At the same time, she's complicated by her struggles with crippling claustrophobia caused by the Suez Crisis-induced trauma of her childhood.

After a few years, Claremont tired of the African Nature Goddess routine and had Storm experience an almost total transformation that nonetheless was completely grounded in her character. Feeling overly limited by the total emotional control required of her powers, Ororo undergoes a subtextual lesbian awakening in Tokyo's underground punk scene and emerges out the other side a free spirit, leader of the X-Men, and Queen of the Morlocks.

In his most audacious move in LifeDeath I and II, Claremont had Storm lose her powers thanks to Forge's anti-mutant tech - and then defeat Cyclops in a duel for command of the X-Men without her powers - and then regain her powers in an epic cycle that saw the X-Men die and be reborn as outlaw heroes in the Australian Outback.

In sum, Storm was clearly Claremont's favorite character and, as a result had the most interesting character journey over his 16-year run on X-Men.

Storm in Krakoa

And then Storm basically lay fallow for almost thirty years. In no small part due to the pioneering work done by Claremont with this character, later writers were frankly too intimidated to touch the character and so starting in the 90s, Storm was increasingly sidelined in the comics in favor of the characters that were commercially "hot" at the time - Wolverine and Gambit, especially.

In the 2000s, the most significant thing to happen to Storm was her marriage to T'challa. While I think Reggie Hudlin had mostly good intentions with this decision - he wanted to create a black power couple at Marvel and thus put together Marvel's most prominent black man and black woman into a relationship - the result was to make Storm a supporting character in Black Panther comics, rather than a main character in X-Men comics.

I would argue that it is only recently with the advent of Al Ewing as a major writer in the X-office with S.W.O.R.D, X-Men Red, and Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants that we've gotten a writer who's not afraid to write Storm as she deserves to be written - as the most powerful of the X-Men, the Regent of Arrako and the Voice of Sol, the standard-bearer of Magneto's legacy, and a woman trying to balance the demands of two planets and her own desires.

[coochiequeens]

Another TIM with a history of domestic violence is using the courts to to play victim

By Anna Slatz January 12, 2024

A trans-identified male is suing the City of New York after he was placed in a men’s detention center while awaiting transfer to another state on charges related to domestic violence. Ali Miles, formerly known as Dylan Miles, is demanding over $22,000,000 in compensation for discrimination on the basis of his gender identity.

Miles, who identifies as a Muslim woman, was incarcerated at the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island from June to July of 2022. His custody was a holding prior to his transfer to another state, as he had warrants for his arrest in the state of Arizona. He was then transferred to Yavapai County Jail where he was ultimately tried and found guilty of two counts of aggravated harassment per domestic violence, a Class 5 felony, for instances dated in November 2021 and February 2022.

He was also found guilty of disorderly conduct, harassment, threatening or intimidating, and false reporting to a law enforcement agency, which are all Class 1 misdemeanors.

In October of 2022, he was placed on supervised probation for a period of three years and sentenced to 312 days in jail, with credit added for the 132 days he had already been held there. Miles was also subject to a domestic violence assessment.

But Miles is now taking to the court to sue to the City of New York for detaining him with other males while he was awaiting transfer to Arizona. The suit argues that Miles faced discrimination, assault, and human rights violations after being placed with men.

From the lawsuit filed by Miles on August 24, 2023.

While asserting that he “wears women’s clothing and in all appearance expresses as a person of the female gender,” the filing argues that Miles was housed in a male facility at Rikers despite allegedly having a court order directing his placement to the female unit.

The suit reveals that following his arrest, Miles informed a judge that he was transgender, and required special housing accommodations to which a judge reportedly agreed. The court file and orders were then marked to notify the prison and their Intake Personnel that Miles was to be housed in the female section of Rikers, but he was not.

“As Miles approached the inside of the building, Miles realized it was a male jail which caused shock, panic and fright to Miles,” the suit reads, referring to Miles using feminine pronouns. “Miles requested and pleaded … that as an LGBTQIA+ individual who was transgendered, she required and needed an accommodation, and that she should not be placed in a male population jail.”

Miles then alleges that a prison staff member said “we don’t do the trans thing here.” He was then strip-searched by a male guard he alleges told him that he had “nice tits” and “one hell of a pussy.” This is despite Miles not having had any known genital surgeries.

Miles continues that he was routinely harassed, “misgendered” and subjected to humiliation during his detention at the George R. Vierno Center. In particular, Miles emphasizes his “sexual victimization” by multiple “African American male” inmates as a result of his placement in a male facility, one of which he alleges sodomized him using butter as lubricant.

Miles is seeking a minimum of $22,000,000 in compensation for the various mistreatments he claims, arguing that the prison’s “unlawful conduct was a direct result of Rikers’ pervasive practices, and customs of discrimination, deliberate indifference, against transgender people.”

Miles is a prolific litigant, and, as previously reported by Reduxx, has filed a number of suits alleging discrimination by various businesses.

In May of 2023, Miles filed a lawsuit against a New York yoga studio seeking compensation of $5,000,000 after employees reportedly asked him to use the men’s restroom instead of the women’s.

In the suit, Miles alleged that the personnel at Chelsea Yoga “deprived [him] of his civil rights because he is gay, undergoing a gender transition, and because Miles does not conform to … gender-based preferences, expectations, or stereotypes about how a man/woman should dress and conduct himself/herself.”

But shortly after that suit was launched, Reduxx learned that Miles had filed at least four other lawsuits, making similar claims of victimization in each.

Dylan Miles. Photo Credit: X / TWITTER.

In February of 2022, Miles filed a civil action for $75,000 in compensation against Sedona Soul Adventures, an Arizona-based business he had previously worked for. Miles alleged that the tourism company had wrongfully terminated his employment shortly after he was hired after subjecting him to “gender identity-based harassment and discrimination.” The suit was dismissed after an out-of-court agreement was reached.

One month later, Miles filed two separate civil actions — one against Planet Fitness and one against Bagel Point, both, again, on the basis of “gender identity-based harassment and discrimination.” In both, Miles represented himself, and failed to use consistent pronouns, often calling himself “Mr. Miles.” 

In his poorly-written civil action, Miles alleged that staff at a Planet Fitness threatened to sound the “lunk alarm” on him for entering the women’s facilities, and used a slur when referring to him. The “lunk alarm” is a fixture seen at most Planet Fitness gyms intended to provide a humorous “warning” to those being too loud or obnoxious in the gym.

Miles demanded compensation of $10,000,000 from Planet Fitness, but the suit was ultimately dismissed after he failed to file the appropriate paperwork and pay $402 in filing fees as requested by the court.

In his action against Bagel Point, a cafe in Brooklyn, Miles sought $75,000 in damages alleging he had been wrongfully terminated and subjected to verbal abuse on the basis of his gender identity.

Miles had been an employee of Bagel Point for a short period of time, during which he claimed the owner, a Muslim woman, had referred to him using slurs and mocked his gender identity, as well as crafting “unsubstantiated” complaints about his performance. The action, which was poorly written and rife with spelling errors, was dismissed by the court once again after Miles failed to file the appropriate paperwork and pay $402 in filing fees.

In yet another suit, Miles sought compensation from New York Presbyterian Hospital, once again claiming to have faced discrimination on the basis of his gender identity. The suit was dismissed and an appeal was not filed.

Though it is unclear when Miles began to identify as a woman, he appears to have converted to Islam around the same time. On his social media pages, he has alluded to learning Arabic and following various Islamic teachings.

While Miles’ past cases were quickly snuffed out of the court system, his most recent suit against the City of New York appears to be proceeding. Having previously represented himself unsuccessfully, Miles has retained an attorney for this suit who has requested the case be referred to the court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (ADR). The ADR is an alternative mediation-style arrangement targeted at speeding up settlement.

On January 10, the lawyers for the City of New York requested a time extension to review the details of the case, with the next hearing being set for February 22.

[buzzdixonwriter]

No More Old White Men For President

I think we’ve seen the last of old white men as political leaders for this century. 

Not saying there won’t be old political leaders.

Not saying there won’t be white political leaders.

Not saying there won’t be male political leaders.

Just saying we’re not going to see any combinations of all three (maybe two of three provided the politician is really good at their job).

Good.

As a distinct subset, old white men have never been the majority in this country.  They wielded their unearned status over women and minorities and younger people to leverage power and control for hundreds of years.

But that was then, this is now.  A hundred  years ago the country was almost ninety percent white; in less than twenty-five years current demographic projections will reduce that to just under fifty percent, making whites the largest minority in a country made up of minorities, but a minority nonetheless.

Good.

Right now, whites are no longer effectively a majority in the U.S.  Including people of mixed ancestry who identify as white, only seventy-one percent of the country is white.

When persons of mixed ancestry are taken out of the mix, that number today drops to less than sixty-two percent.

The cause of this precipitous drop in the white population? 

The whites’ own pernicious “one drop rule” that goes all the way back to the earliest colonial era.

As demonstrated by the fabled “lost colony” of Roanoke, white English colonists in the new world felt no particular attachment to their home culture across the Atlantic and when treated shabbily by their absentee masters back in merrie olde England were perfectly capable of defecting to one of the local Native American tribes.

Realizing they couldn’t force indentured servants to work like slaves, the landed gentry began importing actual slaves from Africa.  Unlike the indentured servants who colonized America, the enslaved Africans faced perpetual chattel slavery with their children born into slavery as well.

Small wonder many of them sought escape to the west where they could be adopted and accepted by local tribes.

Add to this various frontiersmen willing to intermarry with Native Americans -- not to mention the countless number of half-white children born into slavery after white slaveowners raped their mothers -- and whites in American -- particularly that entitled white gentry class -- sought to exclude as many people as possible from the body politic by claiming one drop of non-white blood meant that person by legal definition was non-white.

Don’t listen to the malignant MAGA nonsense; identity politics were created by white men for the protection and preservation of white men.

In the beginning, “white” applied only to those of English or Northern / Western European descent. 

Jewish people, no matter where they came from, weren’t accepted as “really” white.  The Irish and Italians were viewed as subhuman thugs.  A select few French, German, Scandinavian, and some upper crust Spaniards and Slavs were allowed in the white man’s world, but most Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners, and all Asians were excluded.

…that is, until the number of white people in America began declining, then suddenly previous barriers held against the Irish, Italians, and Eastern Europeans dropped in order to reinforce white ranks.

But to this day Latin Americans, African-Americans, Middle Easterners, and Asians are kept outside the old white men’s circle of power.

Oh, a few token representatives are allowed in:  Fetching females who parrot what the old men want to hear, sociopathic opportunists of all kinds willing to make a buck by selling out others like them, etc.

But by excluding all those tainted by so much as “one drop” of Native American, African-American, Middle Eastern or Asian heritage, selfish old power hungry white men hoped to concentrate all the benefits of citizenship on themselves alone.

Well, that didn’t last long.  First African-Americans were freed, then women got to vote, then laws forbidding Asians from being American citizens were struck down, and finally laws against miscegenation were abolished.

The latter meant a lot of people now claimed membership in two subsets of American, the traditional pure white stain [sic!] and something else.

This results in bizarrely arcane rules and regulations, as well as increasingly paradoxical cultural standing.  A single “full blooded” Native American great-great-grandparent enables one to claim membership in that tribe, a tall kid without a noticeable epicanthic fold can be accepted as white even if one parent is fully Asian.

On the one hand, the true American ideal is liberty and justice for all with every person having a chance to participate in society to the best of their abilities. 

On the other, there’s definitely a cultural subset that wants to make sure old white men (and the various subsets of that subset, viz. white women, young white men, etc.) are more equal than others.

But their day is drawing to a close.

Already there are enough old white men who do believe in liberty and justice for all and who vote for young and female and minority candidates to ensure this country’s coalition of minorities get a say in how things are done.

Donald Trump and MAGA represent that last feverish attempt to hold onto power before old white men no longer find the country deferring to them simply because they’re old white men.

Oh, there will be old white men involved in politics in years to come.

They will start as young white men who know how to deal and make alliances with all the other subsets in the country.  A few will be successful enough at their careers to survive long enough to become old white men…

…but they’ll never wield the same dominant clout old white men used to have.

I trust we will not have another old white male president for the rest of this century.  That particular combo is a toxic turd that needs to learn to play will with others.  We will have old people male and female, of all sorts of different backgrounds serve as president, and we’ll probably have a few younger-to-middle aged white men as well, candidates who grew up in the new realpolitik and understand their age and skin tone and assigned genitalia give them no more special consideration than anyone else.

  © Buzz Dixon

[dear-indies]

hello hello! i'm looking for some face claims that could fit the vibe of a street graffiti artist? it's quite vague but i got the urge to have this kind of muse but i'm stuck on fcs unfortunately! any ethnicity is good, and preferably female or nonbinary fcs in their 20s please! thank you so much ♥

Lee Joo Young (1992) Korean - in Green Night.

Jenny Zeng (1993) Korean - in Lighter and Princess.

Chelsea Rendon (1993) Latina, possibly Mexican - her role in Vida.

Devery Jacobs (1993) Mohawk - is queer.

Bae Suzy (1994) Korean.

Midori Francis (1994) Japanese / White - is queer.

Jaz Sinclair (1994) African-American / White.

Jasmin Savoy Brown (1994) African-American / White - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Rachel Sennott (1995)

Jessie Mei Li (1995) Hongkonger / English - is a gender non-conforming woman who uses she/they - has spoken up for Palestine!

Sasha Calle (1995) Colombian.

Mason Alexander Park (1995) Mexican and Spanish - is non-binary (they/them).

Sasha Lane (1995) African-American, Māori, White - is gay and has schizoaffective disorder.

Ayo Edebiri (1995) Yoruba Nigerian / Barbadian - is queer.

Kehlani (1995) African-American, Blackfoot, Cherokee, Mexican, Filipino, Choctaw White - is a non-binary womxn, lesbian and polyamorous (she/they) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ally Beardsley (1996) - is non-binary (they/them) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Florence Pugh (1996) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Tati Gabrielle (1996) African-American 1/4 Korean.

Emma Mackey (1996)

Ruth Codd (1996) - is an amputee.

Myha'la Herrold (1996) Afro Jamaican / White - is queer - has spoken up for Palestine!

Sierra McCormick (1997)

Lizeth Selene (1997) Mexican [Black and Unspecified Indigenous]- is genderfluid and queer (she/they).

Kiana Ledé (1997) African-American, Swedish, Mexican, Cherokee - has spoken up for Palestine!

Piper Curda (1997) Korean / English, Scottish - is apsec - has spoken up for Palestine!

Blu del Barrio (1997) Argentinian - is non-binary (they/them).

Chloé Hayden (1997) - is autistic, has ADHD, and is chronically ill.

Kiara Pichardo (1997) Dominican.

Evan Mock (1997) Bisaya Filipino / White.

Quintessa Swindell (1997) African-American / White - is non-binary (they/he) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ayesha Madon (1998) Indian.

Julia Dalavia (1998) Brazilian.

MK xyz (1998) African-American / Filipino - is a lesbian and uses she/they.

Maya Hawke (1998)

Andy Blossom (1998) Chinese.

Chella Man (1998) Hongkonger and Jewish - is deaf, trans genderqueer and pansexual (he/they) - especially in Titans role - has spoken up for Palestine!

Zoe Terakes (2000) Greek Australian - is a trans masc non-binary guy (they/he) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Odessa A'zion (2000) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, some Irish, Northern Irish, Welsh, German - has spoken up for Palestine!

Paulina Alexis (2000) Nakoda Sioux.

Ruby Cruz (2000) - is queer.

Beabadoobee (2000) ilonggo Filipino / White.

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (2001) Ojibwe, Cree, Chinese Guyanese, Afro Guyanese and White.

Hey anon! I just want to make people aware that I don't reply to asks for "women and non-binary" faceclaims because people in the community like to treat non-binary people was "women lite" and It infuriates me to no end, but since you said preferably I'm more than happy to reply and I hope these suggestions help you! <3

[msclaritea]

BREAKING: TWO “Female Boxers” Set To Compete At Paris 2024 Were Previously Disqualified From Women’s World Championship For Having “XY Chromosomes”

By

Anna Slatz

July 27, 2024

Two athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as “women” were previously disqualified from a women’s world championship for having “XY chromosomes.” Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are scheduled to compete in Olympic women’s boxing next week despite past questions surrounding their biological sex.

The Women’s World Boxing Championships took place in March of 2023 and was hosted in New Delhi, India. A total of 324 boxers from 64 nations competed during the 10-day trial, marking the largest participation in any iteration of the championship ever recorded.

However, the grand event was marred by controversy after Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), announced the disqualification of multiple boxers from the championship.

Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the championship’s grand finale to discuss “fairness among athletes and professionalism,” after concerns were raised about the biological sex of some participants. He added that after “a series of DNA-tests,” the IBA “uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretend to be women.”

Speaking to TASS News, Kremlev claimed that the tests had proven the athletes in question “had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events.”

Among the disqualified was Imane Khelif, an Algerian boxer who had been set to challenge Yang Liu of China in the welterweight final. Khelif was removed from the gold medal fight, and Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng, who had lost to Khelif in the semi-finals, was allowed to proceed to fight Yang instead.

In a public statement, the IBA wrote that “a boxer from Algeria, Imane Khelif, was excluded from the IBA World Boxing Championships due to the failure to meet the IBA eligibility criteria.” But the Algerian Olympic Committee denied the IBA’s claims, attributing Khelif’s disqualification to a “conspiracy” to prevent Algeria from having a gold medal in boxing.

While they vaguely alluded to Khelif being struck for “medical reasons” surrounding high testosterone levels, they added that they would be supporting Khelif’s journey to the 2024 Paris Olympics regardless.

But following the controversial disqualification, a female boxer came forward to discuss her experience fighting Khelif in the ring at the championship.

“When I fought with her I felt very out of my depth,” Mexican boxer Brianda Tamara wrote on X. “Her blows hurt me a lot, I don’t think I had ever felt like that in my 13 years as a boxer, nor in my sparring with men. Thank God that day I got out of the ring safely, and it’s good that they finally realized,” Tamara said.

A second boxer was similarly disqualified by the IBA at the event, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, who was also stripped of a bronze medal.

Lin had previously won 5 gold medals in women’s boxing tournaments.

Lin Yu-Ting winning gold and a $100,000 prize at a 2022 women’s boxing championship.

Despite having faced the disqualification just last year, both boxers will be competing in Paris as female boxers.

Khelif is scheduled to fight Italy’s Angela Carini on August 1, while Lin Yu-Ting is set to be matched the next day.

While neither have stated they identify as transgender, it is suspected that both are impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD), a category of medical conditions encompassing any problem noted at birth where the genitalia are atypical in relation to the chromosomes or gonads.

DSDs in elite sports first came to public attention during the meteoric rise of South African runner Caster Semenya. Semenya’s rapid improvements in performance beginning in 2009 initially triggered suspicions of drug use, and World Athletics (then called the IAAF) was internationally denounced for requesting Semenya take a test to ascertain his biological sex.

Most women, including elite female athletes, have natural testosterone levels of 0.12 to 1.79 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L), but Semenya has XY chromosomes and male gonads producing a normal level of testosterone for a male. In 2011, Semenya was measured as having 15.6 and 29.3 nmol/L. Years later, a decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sport revealed that Semenya has a DSD where the normal male sexual development fails in utero, resulting in external genitals that appear to be a vagina at birth, but was in fact an underdeveloped penis.

Speaking to Reduxx, a representative with the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) condemned the confusion that had emerged surrounding the sex of competitors due to the International Olympic Committee’s 2000 decision to end sex-verification screening.

“The IOC’s decision to end sex-verification screening in 2000 has caused distrust and confusion in women’s sports ever since,” ICONS co-founder Marshi Smith said. “Its 2021 decision to offload the responsibility for international eligibility criteria to individual sporting bodies has resulted in varied standards and widespread chaos among athletes, coaches, officials, and the public.”

Smith notes that a new boxing qualification system was implemented for the 2024 Olympics in which an ad-hoc unit was created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board to organize the boxing competitions for Paris 2024.

This new unit was set up after the International Boxing Association (IBA), which had previously disqualified Khelif and Lin from women’s championships, was suspended by the IOC due to concerns it was receiving funding from Russia.

In the FAQ for the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit, no gender eligibility guidelines are specified, something Smith suggests likely indicates that individual nations were given a tremendous amount of power to deem their own athletes eligible.

“In boxing, the recent contentious split between the IBA and the IOC has now placed Olympic eligibility power into the hands of national boxing federations, allowing countries like Algeria and Taiwan to set their own standards and continue placing male boxers in the ring with female athletes in combat for women’s Olympic medals,” Smith explains.

“The physical abuse of women on an Olympic stage eliminates the integrity of all Olympic events and risks lifelong injury or even death for female athletes. This deceit cannot be allowed to continue.”

[achy-boo]

Amara Anabel Alma

1.Neka (Before)

2.Neka (After)

Full name: Amara Anabel Alma

Name meaning: Amara means 'immortal' or 'eternal' in African and Sanskrit, Anabel signifying 'graceful beauty' and Alma means 'soul' or 'Spirit" in Spanish

Gender: Female

Age: Immortal

Sexuality: N/A

Species: Deity??

Personality: Amara is a soft spoken woman with an unknown origin. She is very motherly and kind hearted, she is mostly had few words to say so she just observe. Like Kianisha, her hostility and rage belongs to those who harmed her 'children'. She is mostly silent and creepy to some due to the fact her face is unnatural to look at it. But be warned: she is sneaky and has a tendency to snatch unwanted tainted souls to her room to turn them into dolls/puppets.

Likes: dollmaking, watching her 'children', remembering her past with Bellatrix and [redacted], trying new human things, snatching unwanted sinners, snow, animals

Dislikes: showing her 'side', [redacted]'s death, her 'children' hurt or sad, people trying to find her origins, Minako's Sakamaki Family, being told no by Night(but she accepted it either way)

Voice Claims;

Japanese: Kafka from Honkai Star Rail

English: Navia from Genshin Impact

Facts:

She is the mother of the girls

She is in that domain of Night's(the one with the two large doors that is chained shut)

She used to protect Bellatrix until Bellatrix tell her to protect Night and her loved ones

She is the Deity(??) of dollmaking

One of her eyes has no light

She had no birthday sadly

She is hostile when her 'children' is hurt or sad

She will adopt anyone as her children

She a kinda hatred towards anyone with malicious intentions

She is very large for her own good. (In mortal form: She is 6'3 when in her deity(??) form: she is 10 ft tall but she is flexible)

Her melody is what you hear at an abandoned doll making workshop or doll house.(Creepy Ass singing but its beautiful)

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older female face claims !

jang heize. 1991. south korean

in nana. 1991. south korean

wang feifei. 1987. chinese

victoria monét. 1993. african american

marina lambrini diamandis. 1985. welsh-greek

rina sawayama. 1990. japanese-british

moon hyuna. 1987. south korean

ari lennox. 1991. african american

megan fox. 1986. american

kim eugene. 1981. south korean

youngest: victoria monét (1993) oldest : kim eugene (1981)

from left to right, in order of list:

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For all the hype, Saudi Arabia is on verge of the most colossal building project flop in history. They have already scaled the project from 100 miles down to 1.5 miles. They are building the city with contract workers imported from from African nations, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and India and who are routinely abused. Over eight years, 21,000 workers have died. ⁃ Patrick Wood, TN Editor.

A brave female reporter has gone undercover to reveal the dangerous and deadly working conditions inside Saudi Arabia.

More than 21,000 workers have died in just eight years since Mohammed bin Salman launched his Saudi Vision 2030 project, according to shocking new statistics.

Staff have complained of feeling like “trapped slaves” and “beggars” in the country.

Serious allegations of missed payments, working illegal hours and a number of clear human rights violations have all been made.

Terrified workers and the heartbroken family members of workers who have died since moving to Saudi have revealed the horrors they’ve faced in recent years in ITV’s latest expose.

Dubbed “Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia” the documentary speaks on the deadly issues experienced firsthand for many.

It goes inside the illegal practices and terrible violations many say are being committed each day under the guise of constructing some of the world’s priciest building projects.

The divisive ruler of the Kingdom, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been at the forefront of trying to develop the oil state into a global tourism hub.

He has splashed trillions to create his Saudi Vision 2030 project which features complexes sch as the flagship NEOM which includes fantasy ideas such as The Line.

Despite the luxury plans for the ambitious builds human rights groups have expressed many concerns over the massive construction plans.

With fears that migrant labour will be exploited and many locals would be displaced.

Saudi Arabia has also been hit with serious allegations claiming a significant number of migrants working in construction have disappeared.

Emerging reports allege that as many as 100,000 migrant workers have gone missing during the construction of NEOM.

New figures from ITV have also revealed that 21,000 foreign workers from India, Bangladesh and Nepal have all died since Vision 2030 was launched.

Nepal’s Foreign Employment Board suggests that over 650 Nepalese worker’s deaths are still unexplained.

In the documentary an undercover journalist named Noura speaks with workers from The Line about the toll its taken on people.

The futuristic 100-mile car-free city with a million residents is currently under construction deep in the Saudi desert.

One worker revealed in the documentary that he is often made to work 16-hour days helping to build a high-speed train tunnel for The Line.

Over just one seven-day week the worker says he can do upwards of 84 hours.

Saudi law strictly states that no one should do more than 60 hours a week.

The worker revealed: “We’re made to work extremely hard. There is little time to rest.

“We get tired. We suffer from anxiety day and night. Saudi doesn’t care much for citizens from other countries.

“We are treated like beggars.”

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Laiqah Omar - Somali Welsh, 2001

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Hello, could you guys possibly give some FC suggestions of African American women ranging from late teens to mid twenties, thank you so much for your help!

below are some  AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN face claims, in their LATE TEENS TO MID 20s. they are listed in alphabetical order, with their birth years && ethnicities. those in bold are my personal recommendations. please  LIKE / REBLOG  if you find this useful.

alanna arrington (1998, african-american, swedish, german && czech/slovak)

ajiona alexus (1996, african-american)

alyssa "latto" stephens (1998, african-american, irish, german && welsh)

amandla stenberg (1998, african-american, danish && greenlandic/inuit)

bailey bass (2003, african-american && belarusian)

bella harris (2000, african-american && mexican)

china anne mcclain (1998, african-american)

chloe bailey (1998, african-american)

coi leray (1997, african-american, puerto rican && cape verdean)

desiree ross (1999, african-american && unspecified other)

diamond white (1999, african-american)

gabriella "h.e.r." wilson (1997, african-american && filipino)

halle bailey (2000, african-american)

helena howard (1998, african-american, english, irish && german)

iman benson (2000, african-american)

jaylen barron (1997, african-american && mexican)

kiana ledé (1997, african-american, mexican, irish, scottish, swedish && norweigan)

kyliegh curran (2005, african-american, african-bahamian, english && irish)

lameka fox (1998, african-american, irish && italian)

lee rodriguez (1999, african-american && mexican)

lexi underwood (2003, african-american && italian)

lori harvey (1997, african-american)

lovie simone (1998, african-american && ghanaian)

madison pettis (1998, african-american, irish, french && italian)

marsai martin (2004, african-american)

nia sioux (2001, african-american)

quvenzhané wallis (2003, african-american)

rachel crow (1998, african-american && unspecified european)

sarah jeffery (1996, african-american, first nations && english)

shahadi wright joseph (2005, african-american && african-trinidadian)

skai jackson (2002, african-american && african-honduran)

sofia richie (1998, african-american, greek, english, scottish && irish)

sofia wylie (2004, african-american, korean, english && german)

storm reid (2003, african-american)

summer walker (1996, african-american && english)

sydney park (1997, african-american && korean)

tati gabrielle (1996, african-american && korean)

willow smith (2000, african-american, african-creole-barbadian && african-creole-jamaican)

yara shahidi (2000, african-american && iranian)

zendaya (1996, african-american, german, irish, english && scottish)

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#THESTAR ── profile.

BIRTH NAME Sadé Sateen Sidonie Hill Bourdon-Rothschild

MOSTLY KNOWN AS Falizé Romé

PREFERRED NAME Sadé Bourdon-Rothschild

NAME MEANING

Sadé: a feminine name of Nigerian origin that translates to "honor earns a crown," "rule or lead with nobility," or "assume royalty with (your) wealth,".  Sateen: a luxurious fabric.  Sidonie: derived from the French language, signifies an individual hailing from this influential city.

NICKNAMES

Queen Mé: Although this is a nickname given to her by the press and her fans as a nod to her success.  SiSi/SoSo: As a proud aunt of many nieces and nephews, Falizé Romé has been given these sorts of names by the children in her life. Momma Romé: Given to her by her friends, it stems from her motherly nature when it comes to the people she loves.  President Bourdon-Rothschild: Due to her education in politics as well as her involvement in the subject, it is a name given to her by fans.   Worldwide Gorgeous: A joke she made with BTS’ Jin.  Lizé: A nickname used mainly by her mother and siblings, as it is simply a short version of her name.  Sachisachi: A play on her first name, Sadé, mainly used by many of her female friends.

DATE OF BIRTH 15 February, 1995

ZODIACS Aries and Pig

CURRENT AGE 29

NATIONALITY Portugese, French, Dutch, American

ETHNICITY 1/2 African American, 1/3 Jewish, 1/6 Scandinavian

PLACE OF BIRTH Milano, Italy

HOMETOWN Coimbra, Portugal / Carcassonne, France / Amsterdam, Netherlands

SPOKEN LANGUAGES Portuguese, French, American English, Yiddish, Dutch, Italian, Palestinian Arabic,  South Korean,  and some German, Russian, Mandarin, and Japanese

RESIDENCY Coimbra, Portugal / Carcassonne, France / Amsterdam, Netherlands

GENDER Cisgender female

PRONOUS She / her / herself

SEXUAL ORIENTATION Mostly heterosexual

RELATIONSHIP STATUS In a relationship

HEIGHT 160cm or 5´2

WEIGHT 50kg or 110lbs

NATURAL HAIR COLOR Dirty Blonde

CURRENT HAIR COLOR Dirty Blonde with Bright Highlights

EYE COLOR Green with hazel accents

SKIN COLOR Olive Tan, Light Skin/Mixed Race Black Woman

BLOOD TYPE AB Positive

BODY MODIFICATIONS 50+ tattoos and 12 piercings

FACE CLAIM A mix between Rihanna and Kendall Jenner

BODY CLAIM Before: Lilly Rose Depp / Now: Kylie Jenner (natural) / After: Raven Tracy

SPEAKING VOICE CLAIM Chungha

SINGING VOICE CLAIM LeeHi and Beyoncé

RAPPING VOICE CLAIM Yoon Mi Rae

STAGE NAME Falizé Romé

NAME EXPLAINED It was her grandmother’s wish for her name, it was based on a girl her grandmother knew when she was a child.

ALIASES Xio Cyr, Sidonie Breaux

Xio Cyr: It was the first stage name she was given, and with the concept of "unknown identity", it was perfect as it makes little sense and it is gender neutral. Sidonie Breaux: This is the name she puts for her lyrical or producing credits, as well as her SoundCloud account, in an attempt to stay anonymous.

AGENIES Roc Nation and Blonde Vinyls

OCCUPATION Singer-Songwriter, Choreographer, Actress, Producer, CEO

GROUP Floraison, 1.5MK, Astrée

DEBUT DATE 30 November, 2008

DEBUT ALBUM Faceless

DEBUT MOVIE Avatar: The Last Airbender

YEARS ACTIVE 2005-present day

NET WORTH 1.4 billion USD

REPRESENTATIVE EMOJI 🦥 / the sloth

FANDOM Ètolies

GENRES R&B, HipHop, Indie, Neo Soul, Alternative

INSTRUMENTS Guitar, piano, and drums

ENDORESMENTS Vivianne Westwood, Dior, Ralph Lauren

ROLE MODEL Her mother (Lauryn Hill), Aaliyah, CL (2ne1)

KNOWN FOR Her fashion sense, being literally everywhere, the ongoing joke in her fandom that she is the type or woman that people go to war for, being the ace and all-rounder of the group, not having a training.period, her versatility, being the creator of Blonde Vinyls, making personal mixtapes for her friends, being the queen of girlfriend material pictures, her random life advice, being different celebrities/idols crushes, her goofy personality and loud laugh, her eyes whenever she performances, her dancing and sharpness

MBTI TYPE INFJ-A

TITLE The advocate

ACRONYM Introverted, intuitive, feeling and judging

DESCRIPTION They tend to approach life with deep thoughtfulness and imagination. their inner vision, personal values, and a quiet, principled version of humanism guide them in all things

COLOR PERSONALITY Hawkes blue

DESCRIPTION Notices others' emotions and feelings and tries to care for them, is happy to travel despite being a homebody. too sensitive and empathetic, they're calm and speak slowly, doesn't believe what others say if there isn't any proof, the type to yield if conflict.

ENNEAGRAM TYPE Type four (the individualist)

DESCRIPTION The sensitive, introspective type: expressive, dramatic. self-absorbed, and temperamental.

PERSONALITY STRENGTHS Creative, insightful, principled, passionate, altruistic

PERSONALITY WEAKNESSES Sensitive to criticism, reluctant to open up, perfectionist, avoiding the ordinary, impatient

HOBBIES/SPECIAL SKILLS Guitar, piano, composing/producing, songwriting, family, doodling flowers on everything, collecting handbags and jewellery, yoga, exercising, morning runs before the sun comes up

LIKES Gaming videos, handmade jewellery, vintage handbags, flower-scented products, ugly furniture because it has personality, lip gloss, star wars, makeup, second-hand shopping, psychological horror, listening to people talk about their interests, being petty, debating, wine tasting, tulips, museums, chocolate

DISLIKES The ticking of clocks, sad beige minimalist home decor, liars, netizens, talking about her feelings

HABITS/MANNERISMS Fiddling with her jewellery, touching up her tip gloss/liner, writing on herself, doodling in her lyric book, rolling her eyes, folding her arms, holding intense eye contact, crossing her legs, tucking her hair, always having perfect posture, wiggling her nose, forgetting that people across the world know who she is, randomly making popping sounds.

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The educational opportunities for African-Americans were so severely limited in the pre-Civil War period that the issue of separate education for girls did not arise. Black boys and girls generally shared whatever inadequate educational facilities were available. Still, there were a few black women teachers in the early national period who founded and maintained schools for black children. In 1820, fifteen-year-old Maria Becraft opened the first boarding school for black girls in Washington, D.C. Two decades later the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia became the training ground for a core of women teachers who significantly affected the development of black schools and whose training could match that of graduates of white female seminaries. Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837-1913), a former slave who in 1860 graduated from Oberlin College, headed the Institute's Female Department from 1869 on for over three decades. Like the other great teachers and founders of educational institutions who followed in her footsteps, her educational goal was first and foremost the elevation of her race and of its mothers. In an adaptation of the ideology of Republican Motherhood the African-American pioneer educators developed an ideology which exalted black mothers as the emancipators of the race.

In one of the greatest social experiments in history, nearly a quarter-million black children, kept illiterate under slavery, were instructed in over 4300 schools within five years of the end of the Civil War. Some 45 percent of the teachers of the freedmen were women, many of them African-American. The movement of which they were a part laid the foundation for the establishment of public schools in the South.

The great black educator Anna Julia Cooper, writing the first full-blown feminist argument in America made by an African-American woman, appealed to black men to “give the girls a chance. . . . Teach them that there is a race with special needs that they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces." And she described with great foresight the result of men's hegemony over ideas, concepts and theories:

So long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was a disc or a sphere. . . . I claim . . . that there is a feminine as well as a masculine side to truth; and that these are related not as inferior and superior, not as better or worse, not as weaker or stronger, but as complements—complements in one necessary and symmetric whole.

With the beginning of the organized movement for woman's rights, male dominance over definitions and mental constructs was under continuous challenge. It would take another hundred years in the United States before women would gain equal access to all institutions of higher learning, but the trend and the outcome were inevitable. The world of thought would no longer reflect only the man's face. The other half of the human race had, after two millennia of struggle, found its voice and established its claims. At long last, a truly human edifice of human thought could and would be built, combining the male and the female vision and irrevocably altering our view of wholeness. Hereafter we, women and men, would know whether the moon is a disc or a sphere.

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

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[Ghostbusters] Brainwaves: Mini Bios (1984) C.U.P.S Professors & Students

Tagging @ariel-seagull-wings @spook-central and @soulman133 Let me know if you want to be tagged/untagged from Brainwaves posts. These are just bullet point bios for the main groups of characters, as in the female professors, Ghostbusters and Ghostbuster staff, the C.U.P.S students, Nova's family (some of them are in C.U.P.S, but won't be in this post) and then the others™ (e.g. Dickless, Dana)

Following Characters:

Heather Nieto-Jorge

May Keaton

Allison Wada

Nova Teufel

Jacob Blumenthal

Cecilia Hedlund

Long post so it's under the cut

Doctor/Professor Heather Nieto-Jorge, PhD. 'Nieto':

Face Claim / Actress: Jennifer Beals

Full Name: Heather Bárbara Yasmin Nieto-Jorge

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Barbie, Hettie, Nieto

32 in 1984. Born November 7th 1952 in Panama. Lives in NY, NY

Panamanian, Female, Bisexual, Catholic, Scorpio, Smoker

Speaks Spanish, English & Portuguese

5'8" and 152 lbs, Brown eyes, Black Hair with a Bleached streak

Matching rose tattoos on her hips, pierced ear lobes

Teaches Agriology, Anthropobiology & Demonology at Columbia

Doctor/Professor May Keaton, PhD. 'Keaty':

Face Claim / Actress: Tracy Chapman

Full Name: May Olive Keaton

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Livi, Keaty

33 in 1984. Born May 1st 1951 in Indiana. Lives in NY, NY

African-American, Female, Straight, Christian, Taurus

Speaks 15 languages to varying degrees, including English & Greek

5'4" and 145 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hair, no tattoos, pierced ears

Teaches Folkloristics, Genetics & Hepatology

Undiagnosed but possibly Autistic, ADHD/ADD

Doctor/Professor Allison Wada, PhD. 'Allie':

Face Claim / Actress: Cherie Chung

Full Name: Allison Saki Wada

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Ali / Allie / Ally

34 in 1984. Born April 9th 1950 in Saskatchewan. Lives in NY, NY

Japanese, Female, Straight, Non-Religious, Aries, Rarely Smokes

Speaks Japanese, English and Spanish

5'5" and 150 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hair, 1 tattoo, pierced ears

Tattoo of a Chinese dragon up her spine

Teaches Biophysics, Biochemistry and Haematology

Doctor/Professor Nova Teufel, PhD. 'Novocaine':

Face Claim / Actress: Meg Ryan

Full Name: Nova Eris Teufel. The Teufel Family are supposed Psychics

Doctor / Professor / Miss. AKA: Professor Goth, Novocaine

31 in 1981. Born January 2nd 1953 in Brooklyn. Lives in NY, NY

German, Female, Demisexual, Biromantic, Wiccan, Capricorn, Smoker

Speaks English, German, French, Spanish and Latin

5'8" (5'11" in her boots) and 152 lbs, Blue eyes, Blonde hair, Dyes her hair often

10 tattoos making up a 1/2 sleeve on her left arm, Ear Lobe & Helix piercings

Teaches Criminology, Mortuary Science & Eschatology

Misdiagnosed and given Anti-Psychotics, Undiagnosed but Autistic and Anxious

Grew up in Psych wards, now lives with her older brother Mars

Jacob Blumenthal. 'Jake':

Face Claim / Actor: John Belushi

Full Name: Jacob Jasper Cassidy Blumenthal

AKA Blue, Blue Man, Cas, Cassie, Coby, Jack, Jake, J.J

30 in 1984. Born January 24th 1954 in Chicago, Lives in NY, NY

White, Male, Straight, Christian, Aquarius, Smoker

Speaks English, Spanish, French and Japanese

5'8" and 222 lbs, Brown eyes, Black hair, stubble & lots of body hair

Has a smiley face tattooed on his left butt-cheek, no piercings

Has been in every classroom at least once, takes Nova's classes because he likes annoying her for attention

Cecilia Hedlund. 'Celia':

Face Claim / Actress: Gilda Radner

Full Name: Cecilia Juni Hedlund (Soon to be Solberg)

AKA Cece, Celia, Cilla, C.J

30 in 1984, Born June 28th 1954 in Sweden, Lives in NY, NY

Swedish, Female, Straight, Lutheran, Cancer

Speaks Swedish, English, Norwegian, French, Spanish and German

5'6" and 145 lbs, Brown eyes and hair, ears pierced, no tattoos

Engaged to an American

Part of the exchange programme & C.U.P.S